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Digital technologies / Year 7 and 8 / Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills

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Curriculum content descriptions

Analyse and visualise data using a range of software to create information, and use structured data to model objects or events (ACTDIP026)

Elaborations

using features and functions of software to summarise data to create information, for example calculating a simple budget of income and payments and creating a summary table for analysis
visualising data to create information, for example identify trends and outlier data from spreadsheets using plots, or displaying geocoded data on a map
applying a set of conditions to a spreadsheet to organise and filter data, for example using conditional formatting to highlight the state of particular cells, and filtering and sorting categorical data using column filters
querying an existing database to extract data for analysis, for example devising multiple selection criteria or using simple structured query language (SQL) SELECT statements to select records and retrieve specified fields
describing the attributes of complex objects, for example defining the records, fields, formats and relationships of a simple dataset
modelling the attributes of real-world objects for a computer game

General capabilities